Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I Curriculum

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

David W. Gatchell PhD, Northwestern University; Robert A Linsenmeier, Northwestern University; Robert L. Murphy, Northwestern University; Akinwale Oladotun Coker P.E., university of ibadan; Akinniyi A. Osuntoki, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

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International Forum

for a postgraduate program preparingstudents for industry. There are currently no courses specifically listed as design courses, butthere is a course in regulatory requirements, which will compensate for the lack of materialspecific to the medical field in undergraduate engineering programs. The project course mayinvolve design, but its description indicates that enrolled students are to, “undertake a project thatwill utilize theories to solve problems related to biomedical engineering issues,” so it is notnecessarily directed toward design.At UNILAG the Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) program started in 2013-2014. As at Ibadan, thePGD is designed to take two semesters (26 units) and the MS about twice as long (an additional32 units). The mission